The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.

The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.